American TV Detective Dramas

Mareike Jenner is an Independent Scholar based in Berlin, Germany. She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from Aberystwyth University, UK, in 2013. She has published on issues of gender and heteronormativity, the detective, teen and hospital genre and Video-on-Demand.

• 1.Introduction 2.Investigating Detection: Methods of Detection in American Detective Dramas 3.Defining Detection: The Detective Genre 4.Telling Detection: The Narrative Structures of American TV Detective Dramas 5.Stabilising Detection: Protecting and Serving the Status Quo from 1950-1968 6.Reforming Detection: Social Change and Political Corruption from 1968-1980 7.Diversifying Detection: Proliferation of Channels and Television Cycles from 1980-2000 8.Disillusioned Detection: DNA and 9/11 from 2000-2010 9.Rethinking Detection: Alternative Methods of Detection 10.Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index